(Vox)- Israel has spent years trying to avoid getting sucked into the vicious civil war raging in neighboring Syria. It’s now wading into the conflict in a way you wouldn’t expect. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has ordered his government to “find...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Daesh-held city of Al-Bab in northern Syria was completely besieged by the Turkish army and the Free Syrian Army (FSA). In a meeting with Albanian President Bujar Nishani in the presidential complex Wednesday, Erdogan said he has just...

Jordanian security forces have arrested a man suspected of funding an attack by ISIS that killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist, a security source said Wednesday. The suspect was detained in a raid on a house in Karak province Tuesday by police looking for the perpetrators behind...

Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of Aleppo in Syria, on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara. Erdogan received Bana and her family at his palace, the state-run Anadolu agency said,...